PSG/Chelsea: Luis Enrique sums up his team in one word

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·12 mars 2026

PSG/Chelsea: Luis Enrique sums up his team in one word

Paris Saint-Germain hosted Chelsea this Wednesday for the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16 and managed to win 5-2 (video highlights here). After the match, Luis Enrique, coach of the capital club, spoke to PSG TV about his players’ performance.

Luis Enrique: “We are a resilient team”

“What an atmosphere, it was incredible! The fans are amazing. I saw the tifos on the screen before the match from the locker room—what a feeling as a coach! I want to tell my players: enjoy playing in this stadium, in this atmosphere, with this confidence you can feel even in difficult moments. It’s so incredible that this victory is for them. It’s also a win for our players because even if we’re not as precise as we’d like, we are fighters and we have an incredible mentality. We are a resilient team, that’s the word! We are resilient, all the time.”

Luis Enrique: “We are capable of winning this second leg.”

“You could see that Chelsea has the level, a very high level. That’s why they won so much last season, and we know them very well. The second leg? I have no doubt it will be a tight and difficult match, just like today. But we’re not going to London just to defend a result, nothing like that. Our mentality is to try to win the match, to attack, and to deserve to win the game because when you think about defending a result, it doesn’t work. I can assure you that we will try to do that. We are capable of winning this second leg.”

A great victory for the capital club, which is now almost assured of qualification after this first leg. Of course, nothing is done yet, but winning a Champions League Round of 16 first leg by a three-goal margin remains a remarkable and very positive performance for the rest of the competition. It was hard to imagine at halftime that PSG would take the lead as they did.

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It must be said that tonight we finally saw the Parisians playing at the level they showed throughout the second half of last season. This is certainly a reassuring performance and will bring a lot of confidence to the squad. Obviously, this will need to be confirmed in the second leg, but there are many positive signs after such a resounding victory against a club that recently won the Club World Cup.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.